There is a lot of buzz these days about new ransomware hijacking systems worldwide. The malware, dubbed NotPetya because it masquerades as the Petya ransomware. One of the many ways to help the spread of malware is to patch your computer, effectively stopping the SMB exploits by disabling SMBv1. Here are steps which can be used to […]
If you have a need to upgrade a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to either the Enterprise, or Datacenter edition, it’s possible to do so online, without re-installing Windows. This not only a simple process, it saves you time. Open an elevated command prompt and type DISM /Online /Get-CurrentEdition. This returns the current Windows […]
Server Core now installed and what is the first command I choose to run in PowerShell Its a command to disable all firewall profiles: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off
I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]
Talking a late walk around features of Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the features that interested me was the deduplicaiton feature. Naturally I want to run this on my Windows desktop. So my journey began. Warning these steps and method are no way supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk. To pull this off […]
To list the updates that have been installed on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 Server simply issue the following command in a command prompt window wmic qfe get hotfixid That’s it